Ship of the Dead
Akin to the superstitious idea of the deathcoach is the belief that at times a phantom barque carries away the souls of men. In the form of a cloud-ship, or wrapped in a driving mist, it sails over mountains and moors, and at sea it sails in despite of wind and tide. A story is told of a certain pirate, at whose death a spectral ship approached in a cloud. As it sailed over the roof the house was filled with a sound as of a stormy sea, and when the ship had passed by the soul of the pirate accompanied it.
Shorter, Thomas: (See Spiritualism.)